Word: provisioners
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As a charter member of the first ("Pioneer") Post of the American Legion (George Washington No. 1) established in the U. S. following World War I, may I ask that you report in your next issue's columns on the following phase of compulsory military training: "What provision, if...
> Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi...
> After a conscript or one-year volunteer has had his twelve months of training, his employer must give him back his old job "unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so." Returning trainees who are not rehired can appeal...
The commission's new version of the marriage canon still forbids Episcopalian marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister...
When Novelist John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (for his Scottish birthplace) of Elsfield (for his home in Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the...